Some silly little powershell notes from a silly little man.

Mapping network printers⌗

This one is super duper straightforward. Can probably use it remotely through the command line option on a UEM (Unified Endpoint Management) tool.

Add-Printer -ConnectionName \\printer-server\PRINTERNAME

Fetching an installer from a URL and install it⌗

This one we create a temporary directory, set the URL where the installer can be located, download, then install it. If there’s any switches you want applied to the installer, place them after the /i <installer> portion.

New-Item -Path 'C:\temp' -ItemType Directory -Force
$installerURL = "https://pkgs.tailscale.com/stable/tailscale-setup-1.58.2-amd64.msi"
Invoke-WebRequest $installerURL -OutFile C:\temp\tailscale-setup-amd64.msi
Start-Process msiexec.exe -Wait -ArgumentList '/i C:\temp\tailscale-setup-amd64.msi'

Uninstall a package⌗

Fairly straight forward, we need to find the installed Win32 package, then we target it with a uninstall function.

First we find our target and the proper details for filtering. Note this will only work on Win32_Product installed items. A quick google tells me “The Win32_Product WMI class represents products as they are installed by Windows Installer.” as for what a Windows Installer is and isn’t I’m not fully sure. I see several things that are absent from this list. But we proceed!

Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Product

You’ll receive a list of items similiar to the following.

IdentifyingNumber : {23170F69-40C1-2701-2201-000001000000}
Name              : 7-Zip 22.01
Vendor            : Igor Pavlov
Version           : 22.01.00.0
Caption           : 7-Zip 22.01

Then we run the following. In this case using the IdentifyingNumber is preferable as this can help unambiguously point at a specific product. But using Name is also possible.

$application1 = Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Product -Filter "IdentifyingNumber = '{23170F69-40C1-2701-2201-000001000000}'";
$application1.Uninstall()